scholarly journals Juventude, imagem e cidade: experiências de pesquisa etnográfica com jovens urbanos em Porto Alegre

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (44) ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillermo Stefano Rosa Gómez ◽  
Jose Luis Abalos Junior ◽  
Manoel Cláudio Mendes Gonçalves da Rocha
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Visual Anthropology ◽  
City Image ◽  
Porto Alegre ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Cultural Diffusion ◽  
Imaging Approach ◽  
The City

O presente artigo é resultado de um diálogo entre três experiências de produção coletiva de pesquisa etnográfica, que têm em comum os temas juventude, imagem e cidade. Um conjunto de nove etnografias visuais foi realizado a partir de uma parceria entre os pesquisadores associados ao Núcleo de Antropologia Visual (NAVISUAL/PPGAS/UFRGS) e os estudantes da disciplina de Antropologia Visual (2016/1) ministrada ao curso de Ciências Sociais da UFRGS sob a coordenação da antropóloga e professora Cornelia Eckert. As reflexões que aqui apresentamos percorrem um processo de ensino-aprendizagem implicado na experiência dos três autores enquanto estagiários docentes nesta disciplina. A proposta lançada consistiu em um exercício etnográfico a ser desenvolvido ao longo do semestre letivo, tendo como eixo temático as “intervenções artísticas urbanas”, no qual os discentes trabalhariam coletivamente no formato de grupos de trabalho, sob a orientação dos estagiários e pesquisadores do Navisual. Como desdobramento de tais experiências, foi produzida uma expografia compartilhada em parceria com o Departamento de Difusão Cultural (DDC/UFRGS) e o projeto UNIFOTO, que ficou exposta na galeria do Hall da Reitoria da UFRGS entre os meses de agosto e setembro de 2016. Destacamos neste trabalho o diálogo e convergências entre três abordagens que percorrem universos empíricos específicos na cidade de Porto Alegre - as Batalhas de MCs, os itinerários e trajetórias de jovens praticantes de skate, e o evento Feira do Hip Hop - propondo uma abordagem imagética em torno do tema das “intervenções artísticas urbanas”, tendo em vista compreender as formas sensíveis através das quais estes sujeitos experienciam, praticam e transformam o viver urbano.Palavras Chaves: Cidade; Imagem; Juventude; Antropologia Visual; Formas Sensíveis.Youth, Image and city: experiences of ethnographic research with urban youngs in Porto AlegreAbstract  This paper is a result of a dialogue between three experiences of collective ethnographic work which have in common the categories of image, youth and city. A group of nine visual ethnographies was carried departed of a partnership of researchers associated with the “Núcleo de Antropologia Visual (NAVISUAL/PPGAS/UFRGS) and the students of the course of Visual Anthropology assign in Social Science under the coordination of Cornelia Eckert. The reflection that we present here go through a process of learning and teaching, based on the experience of the three autors. The proposal launched consisted in a etnographic exercise to be developped alonge the semester, under the bow of a tematic pivot: "urban artistic intervention".As a result of these experiences, a shared exhibition was produced in partnership with the Department of Cultural Diffusion (DDC / UFRGS) and the UNIFOTO project, which was exhibited in the gallery of the Rectory Hall of UFRGS between August and September 2016. We highlight in this work the dialogue and convergences between three approaches that explore specific empirical universes in the city of Porto Alegre - the MCs Battles, the itineraries and trajectories of young skateboarders, and the Hip Hop Fair - proposing an imaging approach around (Sansot, 1983, Ledrut, 1984; Rocha, 1995) through which these subjects experience, practice and transform urban living.Key words: City. Image. Youth. Visual Anthropology. Sensible Forms.     

scholarly journals Performances da cultura visual e de eventos no processo de revitalização urbana no “Distrito Criativo” de Porto Alegre

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (36) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta Simon
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Urban Revitalization ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Visual Anthropology ◽  
Porto Alegre ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ritual Process ◽  
Video Makers

Busco com este artigo refletir sobre as formas como o processo de revitalização urbana em uma região de Porto Alegre se constrói por meio da cultura visual e de eventos específicos. Com aporte da antropologia urbana e visual, a pesquisa etnográfica foi realizada no Quarto Distrito de Porto Alegre/RS/Brasil, principalmente no bairro Floresta, o qual passou por um processo de desindustrialização e hoje recebe olhares atentos de alguns atores interessados em sua revitalização. Junto a este contexto de transformação urbana, compreendemos a importância da cultura visual como um agente fundamental, pois cria uma nova cartografia imagética urbana, que sobrepõe imagens do passado com as do presente, contribui para o registro e a disseminação dos projetos de inovação social. As performances desempenhadas pelos fotógrafos, vídeo makers e participantes dos eventos atuam de forma significativa para uma reconfiguração imagética e estética do território criativo. Os eventos reúnem práticas de sociabilidades, narrativas permeados de emoção com resgates de memórias e com projeções para o futuro. O próprio evento se mostra como um processo estético e ritual. Este artigo compõe parte da pesquisa desenvolvida no Núcleo de Antropologia Visual, da UFRGS.Palavras-chave: Bairro Floresta. Cultura visual. Eventos. Revitalização urbana.Performances of visual culture and events in the urban revitalization process in the "Creative District" of Porto AlegreThis paper aims to reflect upon the ways in which the process of urban revitalization in a region of Porto Alegre is built by visual culture and specific events. Following the contribution of urban and visual anthropology, the ethnographic research was conducted in the Forth District, Porto Alegre/RS/Brazil, mainly in the Floresta neighborhood, which went through a process of deindustrialization and today receives watchful eyes of some actors interested in its revitalization. Near this context of urban transformation, we understand the importance of visual culture as a key player, because it creates a new urban imagery cartography, which overlays images of the past with the present, contributes to register and disseminate the projects of social innovation. The performances of photographers, video makers, and the participants of the events act significantly for a reconfiguration of the imagery and the aesthetics of the creative territory. The events assemble sociability practices, emotional narratives with memories rescue and projections for the future. The event itself performs as an aesthetic and ritual process. This paper is a research developed within the Visual Anthropology Center, at UFRGS.Keywords: Floresta neighbourhood. Visual culture. Events. Urban revitalization.  

scholarly journals Histórias de imagens guardadas: narrativas de negritude, conflito e religiosidade na Ilha da Pintada, Porto Alegre, RS

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (53) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernanda Rechenberg
Keyword(s):  
Rio Grande ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Traumatic Memory ◽  
Rio Grande Do Sul ◽  
Porto Alegre ◽  
The City ◽  
Afro Brazilian

Resumo: Este artigo enfoca as memórias, as narrativas e as formas de sociabilidade religiosas de uma rede de moradores da parte de baixo da Ilha da Pintada, localidade lacustre da cidade de Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, reunidos em torno das práticas e tradições afro-religiosas lideradas por uma família negra. A partir de uma pesquisa etnográfica, focada nos acervos fotográficos desta família, este trabalho busca compreender os conflitos e as táticas desta rede de moradores no enfrentamento cotidiano dos preconceitos raciais. A memória traumática e a tensão permanente entre os moradores da parte de cima e da parte de baixo da ilha inscrevem este território em um jogo conflitual permeado de adesões e evitações a diferentes grupos e espaços na Ilha da Pintada, ora flexíveis, ora determinantes na construção de identidades específicas. Palavras-chave: fotografia, memória, conflito, umbanda, Ilha da Pintada STORIES FROM KEPT IMAGES: NARRATIVES ABOUT NEGRITUDE, CONFLICT AND RELIGIOSITY ON ILHA DA PINTADA, PORTO ALEGRE, RS Abstract: This article focuses on the memories, narratives and forms of religious sociability of a network of inhabitants from Ilha da Pintada, a neighborhood in the city of Porto Alegre-RS, gathered around afro-brazilian practices and traditions. Based on an ethnographic research focused on the photographic collections of this Family, this work seeks to understand the conflicts and tatics of this network of residentes in the daily confrontation of racial prejudices. The traumatic memory and the permanente tension between the inhabitants of the upper and lower part of the neighborhood inscribed this territory in a conflictual game permeated by adhesions and avoidances to diferente groups and spaces in Ilha da Pintada, sometimes flexible, sometimes decisive in the construction of specific identities.Keywords: photography. memory. conflict. umbanda. Ilha da Pintada

scholarly journals Drawing the city: a proposal for an ethnographic study in Rio de Janeiro

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 609-642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karina Kuschnir
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Visual Anthropology ◽  
International Group ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

Drawing the city is a proposal for an ethnographic research project in Rio de Janeiro. I begin by mapping the production of an international group calling themselves ‘urban sketchers,' whose collective project extols drawing as a form of looking, knowing and registering the experience of living in cities. Next I show the connections between art and anthropology, as well as their relation to cities and to Rio de Janeiro in particular. The sources and bibliography on the themes of the social history of art, drawing, visual anthropology and urban anthropology are also discussed. Setting out from the latter area, I present the possibilities for undertaking an ethnography that contributes to our comprehension of the graphic and symbolic narratives of urban life.

scholarly journals Tambor, a comunicação ancestral: Imagens, estéticas e rupturas epistemológicas em uma Comunidade Terreira

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (43) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olavo Ramalho Marques ◽  
Nina Fola
Keyword(s):  
Rio Grande ◽  
Black Culture ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
African Origin ◽  
Rio Grande Do Sul ◽  
Porto Alegre ◽  
Bantu Language ◽  
The City

A partir de uma experiência de pesquisa compartilhada, buscamos refletir neste artigo sobre a realização do R’Gongo, mostra de cultura negra da Comunidade Terreira Ilê Asè Iyemonja Omi Olodô - Vila São José, Porto Alegre/RS. Tendo como mote o “Tambor, a comunicação ancestral”, a edição do evento no ano de 2015 homenageia o alabê Mestre Borel e celebra a centralidade do Ngoma (Tambor, em língua banto) nas mais diversas manifestações da cultura de matriz africana, sobretudo na religiosidade. A realização do R’Gongo 2015, mediada pelo processo de registro e produção narrativa em vídeo, a partir de demanda da própria comunidade, revela a importância deste complexo ritual como momento de reflexão da comunidade sobre sua cultura, suas tradições, sua cosmopolítica.Palavras-chave: Cultura Negra. Religiões de matriz africana. Tambor. Ancestralidade. Porto Alegre.Drum, the ancestral communication: Images, aesthetics and epistemological ruptures in a terreira communityAbstractStarting form an experience of shared ethnographic research, in this article we intend to think about the realization of the R’Gongo, a cultural festival performed by the community of Ilê Asè Iyemonja Omi Olodô – situated in Vila São José, in the city of Porto Alegre, State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Having as its theme “Drums, the ancestral communication”, the 17th edition of the event pays homage the alabê (religious drummer) Mestre Borel and celebrates the centrality of the Ngoma (drum, in Bantu language) in the most diverse manifestations of African origin culture, overall in religiosity. The realization of the R’Gongo in the year of 2015, mediated by the process of its register and narrative composition in video, reveals the importance of this ritual complex as a moment for the community to reflect over its own culture, its traditions and its cosmopolitics.Key words: Black culture. Religions of African origin. Drums. Ancestry. Porto Alegre. 

scholarly journals Um documentário revisitado: 555 Chocolatão

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (31) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
Informal Settlement ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Visual Anthropology ◽  
Housing Project ◽  
Porto Alegre ◽  
Public Housing Project ◽  
Removal Process ◽  
The City

Em 2011, o desfecho de um longo processo de restituição de posse resultou na transferência da Vila Chocolatão, localidade de ocupação então situada em área nobre no Centro de Porto Alegre, para um residencial construído em um bairro periférico da cidade. Frente a esse momento de transição, foi elaborado um projeto de documentário etnográfico, cujo objetivo central residia não apenas na preservação de uma memória imagética dessa localidade, mas, sobretudo, em contrariar uma perspectiva homogeneizante sobre a população local. Sendo assim, o artigo tem por finalidade revisitar o processo de elaboração do documentário a partir de questionamentos que permearam sua realização. Palavras chave: Antropologia visual. Documentário etnográfico. Estética. Ética. Imagem.   A Documentary Revisited: 555 Chocolatão   Abstract   In 2011, the outcome of a long going lawsuit resulted in the removal of Vila Chocolatão – an informal settlement then located in a prime area of downtown Porto Alegre – to a public housing project built in a suburb of the city. An ethnographic documentary was elaborated in order to follow the removal process. Its main objective was both to preserve an imagetic memory of the place, and, above all, to contradict a homogenizing perspective regarding the local population. Therefore, the article aims at revisiting the process of preparing the documentary based on the questions and concerns that guided its making. Keywords: Aesthetic. Ethics. Ethnographic documentary. Image. Visual Anthropology.

scholarly journals Hip hop in Cuenca - Cultural Expressions, elements and identities

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 171-178
Author(s):  
Diego Illescas Reinoso ◽  
Maribel Acosta Damas
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Youth Cultures ◽  
Communication Processes ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cultural Expressions ◽  
The City

This ethnographic research will allow us to enter the Hip Hop movement in Cuenca from a social perspective. Its characteristics, identities, artistic and cultural expressions will be known through its elements. Their needs will be made visible as part of the urban cultures of Cuenca, in order to understand how they influence society, whether or not they are excluded, whether or not they enjoy privileges as subjects of law. In this qualitative study, the ethnography technique is applied, whose main objective is to learn about the history of hip hop in the city, its beginnings, the pioneers of the genre; For this we will contextualize this group in the world and we will know the elements that compose it such as: Graffiti, Rap, Break Dance and Turntablism, also called DJing. This study also tries to examine the communication processes and the participation of the hip hop movement in the public space in which decisions are made on matters of interest and how the forms of participation in the construction of public policies are distinguished. Terms such as urban cultures, youth cultures, counterculture and public space are defined to classify hip hop within them, showing how the identity of young people in this genre is constructed.  

Bubbles, Tracks, Borders and Lines: Mapping Music and Urban Landscape

2012 ◽  
Vol 137 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Hip Hop ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Urban Conditions ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

ABSTRACTThis article explores the relationship between music and material urban environments by drawing on ethnographic research with rock and hip-hop musicians. The first of its three sections introduces some of the musicians who participated in that research and the maps they drew to illustrate their music-making activities in the city. The second compares these hand-drawn maps and their various lines and patterns, and relates their differences to music genre and particular urban conditions. The final section of the article explores the broader implications of the maps for conceptualizing the relationship between music and material environments. It starts by considering notions of articulation and mediation and their usefulness for understanding relations between music and material urban environments. Focusing on the maps’ detailed lines and patterns, it then describes how music and music-making are mediated by material urban environments, a process involving the navigation of journeys and boundaries and the forging of multiple relations along the way.

Book reviews

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-162
Author(s):  
Evinc Dogan ◽  
Efe Sevin
Keyword(s):  
Food Culture ◽  
City Image ◽  
Culture Consumption ◽  
The City

Corvo, Paolo (2015). Food Culture, Consumption and Society. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (ISBN: 9781137398161)Dogan, Evinc (2016). Image of Istanbul: Impact of ECOC 2010 on the City Image, London: Transnational Press London (ISBN: 978-1-910781-22-7)

The impact of a mega-event on city branding: The European Capital of Culture 2010 and the image of Istanbul

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evinç Doğan ◽  
Ibrahim Sirkeci
Keyword(s):  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Place Branding ◽  
World City ◽  
City Branding ◽  
City Image ◽  
European Capital Of Culture ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
Symbolic Production ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

This study examines the ways in which the city image of Istanbul is re-created through the mega-events within the context of the European Capital of Culture (ECoC) 2010. Istanbul “took the stage” as one of the three ECoC cities (Essen for the Ruhr in Germany and Pécs in Hungary), where the urban spaces were projected as the theatre décor while residents and visitors became the spectators of the events. Organisers and agents of the ECoC 2010 seemed to rebrand Istanbul as a “world city” rather than a “European capital”. With a series of transnational connotations, this can be considered as part of an attempt to turn Istanbul to a global city. In this study we examine posters used during the ECoC 2010 to see whether this was evident in the promoted images of Istanbul. The research employs a hermeneutic approach in which representations, signs and language are the means of symbolic meaning, which is analysed through qualitative methods for the visual data (Visual Analysis Methods), namely Semiotics and Discourse Analysis. The analysed research material comes from a sample of posters released during the ECoC 2010 to promote 549 events throughout the year. Using stratified random sampling we have drawn 28 posters (5% of the total) reflecting the thematic groups of events in the ECoC 2010. Particular attention is also paid to the reflexivity of the researchers and researchers’ embeddedness to the object of research. The symbolic production and visual representation are therefore investigated firstly through the authoritative and historically constituted discourses in the making of Istanbul image and secondly through the orders of cultural consumption and mediatisation of culture through spectacular events. Hence enforcing a transnationalisation of the image of the city where the image appears to be almost stateless transcending the national boundaries. Findings and methodology used in this study can be useful in understanding similar cases and further research into the processes of city and place branding and image relationships. 

Book Review

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 386-389
Author(s):  
Eduardo Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
City Image ◽  
European Capital Of Culture ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The World ◽  
The City ◽  
The Olympic Games

Evinç Doğan (2016). Image of Istanbul, Impact of ECoC 2010 on The City Image. London: Transnational Press London. [222 pp, RRP: £18.75, ISBN: 978-1-910781-22-7]The idea of discovering or creating a form of uniqueness to differentiate a place from others is clearly attractive. In this regard, and in line with Ashworth (2009), three urban planning instruments are widely used throughout the world as a means of boosting a city’s image: (i) personality association - where places associate themselves with a named individual from history, literature, the arts, politics, entertainment, sport or even mythology; (ii) the visual qualities of buildings and urban design, which include flagship building, signature urban design and even signature districts and (iii) event hallmarking - where places organize events, usually cultural (e.g., European Capital of Culture, henceforth referred to as ECoC) or sporting (e.g., the Olympic Games), in order to obtain worldwide recognition. 

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